Weird Fiction for the Bold
The old cowboy’s silhouette danced on sandstone behind him as he turned over and regarded the younger man across the fire. “Come sun up, you and me’ll head into town and see what’s what.” The younger man grumbled an affirmative and nodded off almost immediately. His dreams were dark and foggy, with vague images of…
I HANDED QUEEN CYNDRA her goblet and stepped back, my eyes demurely downcast. She didn’t spare me a glance and never had. As assistant to the apprentice cupbearer, I was invisible in a royal court filled with advisors, courtiers, and clerks all squabbling to be seen. I floated from the shadows when my duty required…
THE SUN WAS A DIME in the white pan of the sky. Angel’s lips rustled together like tissue paper, reminding her wildly of the moment she pulled the wedding dress from its package in the dusty post office in Eureka. That had been four weeks and a lifetime ago. It had been a creamy white…
“YO, OILY JOSH!” “Sup?” “This dude says he needs his hand fixed. He’s, like, a carpenter or sumthin.” “Yeah? I did some carpenterin’ in my day. Send him in.” A young man in a dirty robe hobbles in carrying a hammer. His right hand is mangled and bloody. Oily Josh—a big man with long, greasy…
11/4/1902 – Ever since the day my dear father handed me the map—on his sickbed and mere minutes from death, God rest his soul—I have dreamed of this day. Today, we board the steamer Beluga and begin our voyage to Brazil and the heart of the mighty Amazon. Having secured funding through the Royal…